LAW DATABASES

Akron Law DigitalAkron Law Digital provides 24/7 electronic access to numerous titles published by Lexis. Sign in with your University email address. Akron Law Digital contains many Lexis study aids, including the Questions and Answers and Understanding Series. These ebook study aids can be downloaded, highlighted and annotated by the user. There are also primary and secondary sources published by Lexis, including many Ohio treatises, and large treatises such as Nimmer on Copyright and Page on the Law of Wills.

Bloomberg Law Provides comprehensive access to up-to-date legal content as well as daily business news and market information. Includes a legal citator, cases, statutes, news, commentary and analysis, federal docket searching, and transactional information. For further information see the Legal Research Databases Guide. [UA Law users only, requires registration and password.]

CALI (Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction) CALI Lessons are web-based tutorials on a variety of legal subjects. Currently there are over 950 lessons in over 35 law school subjects. Click here for information about the CALI authorization code for UA Law students. [UA Law users only, requires registration and password.]

Casemaker Casemaker is the Ohio State Bar Association’s online legal research service. This service provides access to state and federal case law, statutes, court rules, administrative codes, and attorney general opinions. For further information see the Legal Research Databases Guide. [Available to law students who are members of the Ohio State Bar Association. Law student membership in the Ohio State Bar Association is free.]

Ebscohost Legal Collection The full text of over 250 law reviews in English. [UA users only.][This resource is made available by the University Libraries]

Eighteenth Century Collections Online The Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a comprehensive digital collection of nearly 140,000 English-language titles covering all subjects published between 1701 and 1800 in the United Kingdom and North America, including foreign-language titles printed in the UK. It includes titles covering the development of law in the British Empire between 1701 and 1800. [UA users only.][This resource is made available by the University Libraries]

Foreign Law GuideThe Foreign Law Guide (FLG) covers over 190 foreign jurisdictions and offers information on sources of foreign law, including bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations, and selected references to secondary sources. [McDowell Building only.]

Hannah Capitol ConnectionProvides access to Ohio legislative and governmental information service, including bill tracking, the full text of bills, the administrative code and revised code, committee rosters, legislator information, and government-related news from the Hannah News Service. Also known as Ohio Capitol Connection or Hannah Online. [UA users only.]

HeinOnline Online searchable, legal research collection includes Law Journal Library of U.S. and foreign titles providing comprehensive coverage, Congressional Record bound volumes, U.S. Reports, state statutes and session laws, legal classics, world famous trials, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, U.S. Treaties, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and various, specialized collections [UA users only.]

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals HeinOnline’s Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) is a subject index to articles and book reviews in selected foreign law journals and collected essays, from 1985 to the present. Includes browsable digital versions of print index editions from 1960-1984 [UA users only.]

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full Text This database provides complete coverage of English language legal information and includes indexing of over 1,025 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, government publications, and monographs. With nearly 300 law reviews, it provides international coverage including periodicals from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. [McDowell Building only.]

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective A retrospective database indexing over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic are also covered. [UA Users only.]

LegalTrac Index to selected articles published in major legal periodicals from 1980 to the present, including law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international law journals. Includes some full-text articles as well as law-related articles published in business and general interest periodicals. [UA users only.]

LexisNexis Courtroom CastThis resource has three components: AudioCaseFiles, Video and Training. AudioCaseFiles consists of downloadable MP3 files of edited judicial opinions, organized by casebook. The opinions are edited by LexisNexis Courtroom Cast staff and may not exactly match the edited version of the case in your casebook. Included with each MP3 is the full-text of the edited opinion, a brief fact summary, and the rule of law. The Video component offers an online library of courtroom videos with thousands of hours of trials, hearings and oral arguments. The Training component consists of three training libraries that employ multimedia to provide instruction in trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, and the rules of evidence. [UA Law users only, requires registration and password.]

LLMC Digital Retrospective digital collection of primary and secondary legal materials including federal and state official case reporters, U.S. Statutes at Large, and decisions of some federal agencies. Includes legal source materials from the U.K. and former Common law countries. [UA users only.]

Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 This digital collection contains approximately 1,350 works, including colonial records, constitutional conventions and compilations, city charters, law dictionaries, and state codes. The sources are full-text searchable or can be browsed by author or title. Advanced search features include searching by jurisdiction, publication type, language, date, and illustration. [UA users only.]

Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 is comprised of thousands of books and pamphlets. It is an archive of trial documents and unofficially published accounts of important trials in the U.S., Britain, and France dating from 1600 to 1926. It covers commercial law, constitutional law, dueling, elections, impeachment, international law, land, libel, military offenses, murder, torts, treason, and wills, among many other subjects. [UA users only.]

Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs, 1832-1978 This collection contains records and briefs brought before the United States Supreme Court between 1832 and 1978. Included are transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, and supplements. It contains nearly 11 million pages from over 75,000 cases brought before the Court. [UA users only.]

Comprehensive legal, business and news resource. Provides access to federal and state statutes, cases, regulations, administrative decisions, briefs, pleadings and motions, law reviews, and journal articles. Intended for a general academic audience. (This database was formerly known as Lexis Academic) [UA users only.]

Oxford ReferenceOffers access to dictionaries, language reference tools, and subject reference tools from multiple disciplines. Law-related titles include the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, the Encyclopedia of Human Rights, and the Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. [UA users only.][This resource is made available by the University Libraries]

Oxford Scholarship OnlineOffers access to thousands of academic monographs in 20 subject areas across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law. [UA users only.][This resource is made available by the University Libraries]

PACER NOTE: This resource is now available as part of the Bloomberg Law database listed above. [UA Law users only, requires registration and password.]

ProQuest Congressional Provides access to Congressional hearings, committee reports, witness testimony, and other Congressional publications. Content also includes the Congressional Record and its predecessors, documents from the Congressional Research Service, information about current and historic members of Congress, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, political news sources, and social media. Coverage begins with 1789. [UA users only.]

ProQuest Supreme Court InsightBy the end of 2017, Proquest Supreme Court Insight will contain U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs from 1975-2016/2017 term. Contains materials for cases argued before the Supreme Court only. As of January 2017, 500 cases from 2004-2014/15 are loaded. In Q1 2017, content from the current term will be added, as well as content working backward from 2004. Includes docket, petition for writ of certiorari, briefs, oral argument transcript, opinion.More info

West Academic Study Aids24/7 access to more than 470 study aids in ebook format. Includes Gilbert Law Summaries, Sum and Substance titles, Black Letter Outlines and High Court Case Summaries. University of Akron users do not need to create an account to access, but may want to create an account to save your highlights and notes, save favorites and see your recently viewed titles. [UA users only.]